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[cryptoadam]

Coronavirus traces found in Spanish sewage sample from March 2019 - National | Globalnews.ca

Traces of coronavirus have been found in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the virus was identified in China.

globalnews.ca

The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the scientific community thought.

The University of Barcelona team, who had been testing waste water since mid-April this year to identify potential new outbreaks, decided to also run tests on older samples.

They first found the virus was present in Barcelona on Jan. 15, 2020, 41 days before the first case was officially reported there.

Then they ran tests on samples taken between January 2018 and December 2019 and found the presence of the virus genome in one of them, collected on March 12, 2019.

So we are talking over a year ago. If CONFIRMED.

 

[highrider]

I would honestly think it's kind of a given that the timeline is inaccurate. Chinese government are lying sacks of shit and the WHO and CDC seem about as efficient as other taxpayer funded entities. Negligible at best.

 

[DogofWar]

I don't know what is more disturbing, that it has been around for so long or that they, even if for scientific purposes, saved poop-water for over a year.

 

[poppabk]

That would be very strange, my guess is they are detecting a coronavirus but not covid-19.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

And I was mocked when I said North England had it last December

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Got a case of the Mondays GAF? Just remember you're not doing genetic testing on 15 month old human shit for a living*

*unless this article is about your research, and, in that case thank you for your shit service.

 

[HellforLeather]

I don't know what is more disturbing, that it has been around for so long or that they, even if for scientific purposes, saved poop-water for over a year.

I just imagine that there is a guy at a water treatment plant all up on his high horse now....

"You all thought I was crazy and made fun of me for saying we needed to save this poop water. 'There goes ol' Poop Water Hording Jim!' people would say. Well who's laughing now!?"

 

[DogofWar]

I just imagine that there is a guy at a water treatment plant all up on his high horse now....

"You all thought I was crazy and made fun of me for saying we needed to save this poop water. 'There goes ol' Poop Water Hording Jim!' people would say. Well who's laughing now!?"

"One day you are going to be very happy that I take samples of the sewage waste every week and save it in the office!

Yes, apperantly they were.

 

[HellforLeather]

"One day you are going to be very happy that I take samples of the sewage waste every week and save it in the office!

Yes, apperantly they were.

that dude still isn't going to be invited to the plant Christmas party.

 

[diffusionx]

Oh but when *I* line my cubicle with jars of dirty toilet water, I get written up.

 

[jason10mm]

Spanish Flu confirmed!

 

[ShirAhava]

Covid-2018-2021: Four Years of Hell

 

[Woo-Fu]

I wonder what kind of clearance it takes to get into Spain's strategic poop reserve.

 

[JLMC469]

Makes you wonder how many people actually had it in 2019.

 

[008]

That would be very strange, my guess is they are detecting a coronavirus but not covid-19.

Yep, this is what I'm thinking as well

 

[Smiles and Cries]

contaminated sample? 'If confirmed'

 

[JLMC469]

 

[MasterCornholio]

Where next Bikini Bottom?

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

It's possible that this damn Virus is on urine as well. Going to the beach and accidentally swallow some sea water with the virus since folks love pissing inside the water. I'm guessing that's why Florida is getting it's ass whooped by the rapid increase of covid-19...
*(My Theory)

 

[888]

Maybe someone coughed on a turd when they were smelling it.

 

[cryptoadam]

I think the 2019 will be a false positive or another rona. It being hear a year and not spreading or killing mass people?

Either it would of mutated which they would see in the RNA and would of told us or somehow it didnt spread and kill people for almost an entire year.

 

[yeehaw]

I think the 2019 will be a false positive or another rona. It being hear a year and not spreading or killing mass people?

Either it would of mutated which they would see in the RNA and would of told us or somehow it didnt spread and kill people for almost an entire year.

nice. bowing to the lefts narrative.

 

[cryptoadam]

 

[digital_ghost]

Eat shit sewer rats.

In other news the ninja turtles have the cornavirus.

 

[darkinstinct]

Coronavirus traces found in Spanish sewage sample from March 2019 - National | Globalnews.ca

Traces of coronavirus have been found in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the virus was identified in China.

globalnews.ca

The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the scientific community thought.

The University of Barcelona team, who had been testing waste water since mid-April this year to identify potential new outbreaks, decided to also run tests on older samples.

They first found the virus was present in Barcelona on Jan. 15, 2020, 41 days before the first case was officially reported there.

Then they ran tests on samples taken between January 2018 and December 2019 and found the presence of the virus genome in one of them, collected on March 12, 2019.

So we are talking over a year ago. If CONFIRMED.

One sample. It's clearly just a false positive, the study isn't even peer reviewed yet. So stupid to make news articles out of preprints.

 

[GymWolf]

When you job is searching for virus on 1 year old crap stains.

 

[TriSuit666]

One sample. It's clearly just a false positive, the study isn't even peer reviewed yet. So stupid to make news articles out of preprints.

Except this kind of study has previously confirmed covid virus particles can be passed this way; was reading a study from the mid-1970's about it the other day.